The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-07-30

- year, while IL Will eat almost any
kind OF food and yield from time Of kid
ding aud for six months from one and y
half 10 two quarts OF milk per day.
worth at least eight cents a quart.
THROUGH DEPARTMENT. EYES.
The June returns Of the Department
Of Agriculture Of Washington indicate
reduction Of nearly per cent in the
area of Winter wheat. The spring
wheat area has been enlarged per cent
from increase Of immigration and farm
making West OF the Mississippi in the
districts traversed by the Northern Paci-
fic Railroad. The total area Of wheat Is
about 81 900 900 acres, fraction Of
percent more than that of the previous
crop. In the condition of Winter wheat
there isno marked change, the average
being SO Q. reduction OF ninc-tenths Of
| per cent.
The condition offspring wheat Is good
In Dakota and territories Westward, but
below average records i'm Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. The
general average for Spring wheat is 81.
3, which is lower than in recent years.
but thirteen points higher than in 1881.
AT harvesting last year the condition
averaged so.
The area of Winter rye has been d.
minished over 6 per cent, mainly by a
large reduction in Kansas. Condition
is better than that of wheat. averaging
S5.9. An apparent enlargement of the
barley acreage or per cent is indicated.
Condition averages 81, strictly being
above that of wheat.
cURRANT NOTES.
Cut of the heavy egfeathering OF the
Asiatic in Winter. but do not pull out
the feathers. as others will grow on the
legs again.
Professor Stewart reports the feeding
of l04 COWS on an acre OF corn in the
milk, and it gave them full feed for
four days. equal TO 4l6 days for one COW.
The fresher the egg the smaller the
ar-sack in the large end and when
cooked the stale egg can be peeled like
an orange but the contents Of fresh
egg adhere TO the skin when hardboiled,
Sour saucc--One cup of sugar, half n
cup of butter, one even teaspoonful OF
Hour, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar;
beat all well together; pour over IL one
pint Of boiling water, and let IL come to
a boil. Spice with nutmeg TO taste.
Snow drop-One cup of butter, two
cups Of sugar, whites of five eggs, one
small cup of milk, three full cups of pre-
pared flour; flavor with vanilla and nut
meg. Bake In small round tins. Those
in the shape of iluted shells are very
pretty.
Underground bone Is cheaper, in
proportion 10 the amount of phosphoric
acid contained. than superphosphate,
but Is not SO Immediately available as
plant food. II is best TO mix one-third
uperphosphate with two-thirds grounds
one on heavy soils.
Professor johnson, of Michigan
Agricultural College, writes TO the
Rural New Yorker: 1.-The college silo
was built I'm 1881, rs an experiment.
After these years of experience we are
fully satisfied as TO the value and econ
omy of silage as an auxiliary fodder.
The rose bugs, which Colonel Pearson
speaks of as devasting Vineland, are
now Teasing on Delaware peaches to
an extent that will shorten the crop
materially. A letter from Secretary Will
lams gives gloomy account of the adj
vance OF this pest through New Jersey.
An English paper speaks of the silver
bell tree-halesia---as n neat, small tree
or large shrub from twelve TO twenty
feet in height. We have seen il i'm the
mountains of North Carolina attaining
the dimensions of timber tree. One
measured specimen girthed 100 inches
and stood straight as a gun-barrel
with the first limbs forty feet from the
ground.
Mr., Cooper Of Coopersburg. Is one OF
the breeders who IL disposed to chal-
lenge the Holstein men in view OF their
elation over success at the New York
Dairy Fair Mr.. Cooper proposes 10
take five daughters of Pedro and match
them against any five IIolsteins in a
herd Of sixty. the number of his own
cattle. An account Is TO be kept OF
of everything fed, and the butter sold
TO some first class firm. Each owner is
To be credited with the sum re-
ceived and the one obtaining
the greatest net earning Is to take
x1OOO Mr.. Cooper is after the COW